Vivian Byerly, a rising fifth grader at Greensboro Day School, had written the message while enjoying a 'Pirate Day' with her third grade class in 2019A North Carolina fifth grader made an unlikely pal when her message in a bottle was found by a fisherman more than 4,000 miles away. Vivian Byerly, a rising fifth grader at Greensboro Day School, had written the message while enjoying a 'Pirate Day' with her third grade class in 2019. 'When we finished learning about the coastal plains region of North Carolina the class voted to celebrate by having pirate day,' third grade teacher, Susan Ferguson, explained to Fox 8. The bottle and the knife that the fisherman used to open itThe letter had traveled more than 4,000 miles to Morocco in North Africa, found by a fisherman who was not proficient in English. 'It's really cool that one bottle traveled 4,000 miles in a little over a year,' she said.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 16, 2020 05:06 UTC